RemoteMentor is an one-year project funded by Austrian Internet Foundation NetIdee. In this project, female students between 14 to15 years used our app Pocket Code during their computing and arts lesson. During this time, they received real time online mentoring by students from TU Graz. The girls called a mentor and shared their screen with them to show their scripts and ask for advice.

In September 2018 a new project funded by FEMtech (FFG) started. To make Pocket Code more interesting and attractive for our target group of young women between 12 and 15 years old, we will extend the app with the option to program embroidery machines. In this way, self-created patterns and designs can be stitched on t-shirts, pants or even bags. The project will be realized together with “bits4kids” and the Styrian fashion shop “Apﬂbutzn”.

“Mind the Gap“ / Gender & Diversity Award

November 2018

The dissertation of the Catrobat member Bernadette which focuses on empowering girls for coding has been honoured with the Gender& Diversity award from the TU Graz.
Link to her dissertation: https://catrob.at/SpielerPhD

Several hundred students participated in this year's Google Code-in at Catrobat. We're amazed how many great submissions have been made and how the students
got an active part of our community! Congratulations to the participants - you all did a great job and we hope you stay part of our community!

The Austrian Internet Foundation has selected our Remote Mentoring (inspired by Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age bestseller) for its "Closing the Gender Gap" Award! Especially girls will benefit from the results of this new feature to get connected online with others to learn coding together.

The International Scratch Conference 2017 will take place from July 18th to July 21st in Bordeaux, France! Meet our team there to get to know the latest news about Pocket Code, Create@School and the new Phiro Extension!

To discuss new, innovative technologies in education and also to get input for the future development of our services, our team attended to the 9th International Conference on Education and new Learning Technologies in Barcelona this week!

The Catrobat Team presented Pocket Code and No1LeftBehind at the Maker Faire Vienna. Hundreds of interested Makers visited the booth or participated in the workshop "Create your own app in 60 minutes".

Hundreds of great games have been submitted to the #GalaxyGameJam and also several schools participated in our class contest. Together with Samsung Austria we visited the winners class in the middle of the Austrian Alps and handed over the prizes to these lucky winners. Congratulations!

Catrobat at Google Summer of Code 2017

February 2017

Catrobat got selected again for GSoC! We're happy to foster the FOSS community and are looking
forward to the work of the students on our project!

Pocket Code is the Winner of the Regional Award Europe at the Reimagine Education Awards from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA!

December 2016

Wharton's MBA program is ranked No. 1 in the world according to both Business Insider and QS, and Wharton's business school undergraduate program is also ranked No. 1 in the United States by U.S. News & World Report and Forbes. Alumni, among many others, are Warren Buffett, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and John Sculley!

From December 5th to 11th, kids, teenagers and adults worldwide learn together how to create their own games during the Hour of Code. Find Pocket Code's #GalaxyGameJam among
many other great tutorials for beginners!

For the ongoing development of a Right-to-Left language version of Pocket Code, Catrobat got honored with a grant of the Austrian Netidee and the special award "Internet for Refugees"!Picture: Netidee/Alex Müller

Participate in the Alice Game Jame with Pocket Code and Scratch during the Computer Science Education week from December 7th to 13th! Create and design your own Alice themed game or story and share it with us!
All information needed and some cool tutorial and media-stuff can be found on the special event website! Let's code and be part of something big!

Fundings by Google help us to reach out for children all over the world and give them the chance to learn how to code with Pocket Code! Schools and teenagers worldwide are already using Pocket Code and create their own apps and games, to get prepared for the digital future. Thanks to Google we even can reach out for more children and provide them additional materials and tutorials!
Read the full story of Google Fundings supporting Pocket Code here